Nineteenth Century Collection (page 58)

Crossing the [Sebaque] River
Sketch 16 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

Our wagon capsised on climbing out from Hout Bosch Raand- Natal. Sketch 2 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology by John Edward
Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology, Vol. 2 by John Edward Gray, (1833)

Lo Bengulu King-elect of the Matabeliland
En Famille. November 1869 Sketch 74 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

Village of Tabooka Mashona petty chief

Hunting at Meritsane (Plate 51 / 52)
An illustration by Captain (later Sir) William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled though South Africa

Beauties of Flora
Plate 8 from The Beauties of Flora 1820, by Samuel Curtis (1779-1860). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The first Cagila in Southern Africa
As described by an eyewitness. (Children being transported illegally) Sept 1870. Sketch 47 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1820-1875)

No. 1 Wagon, South African Gold Field
Expedition & of Mr Hartley & the hunters nr camp of Sir John Swinburne N. of Um Vuli River. Sketch 26 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

Rallus aquaticus, water rail
Plate facing page 34 in M.S. Notes for John Goulds The Birds of Europe, Vol. 6, (1832-37)

Krakatoa in eruption
Krakatoa during an early stage of the eruption. Plate 1 from The Eruption of Krakatoa (1888) by G. J. Symons

Raphael Blanchard (1857-1919)
Portrait of Raphael Blanchard, a French botanist. From Archives de Parasitologie Tome XVI No 4, 31 October 1919

Agrotidae, moths and caterpillars
Plate 35, an illustration of a variety of moths and caterpillars from European Butterflies & Moths by William Forsell Kirby (1844-1912), 1882

Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899)
Portrait of Othniel Charles Marsh, a vertabrate palaeontologist

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Title Page of On The Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or, the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1859) by Charles Darwin

Corvus corax, northern raven
Watercolour by Archibald Thorburn c.(1885-97)

Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, spectacled cormorant
Watercolour of by John Gerrard Keulemans (c. 1905)

Thalassarche bulleri, Bullers albatross, T. salvini, Salvin
Watercolour by John Gerrard Keulemans (c. 1887-1905)

Anser brachyhynchus, pink-footed goose
Watercolour and ink by John Gould (c. 1865). An example of a prelliminary work by Gould in preparation for an illustration which would be published in one of his books

Nycticryphes semicollaris, South American painted snipe
Watercolour and pencil by Elizabeth Gould (c. 1835), this was drawn from a specimen held by the Zoological Society of London

Grus anigone, Sarus crane eggs
Gouache by an unknown artist, (c. 1830-40). Part of the Jardine Collection

Heterophasia gracilis, grey sibia
A gouache by Khuleelooddeen, (c. 1830-40). Originally published in William Jardines Contributions to Ornithology, 1853. Part of the Jardine Collection

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